Free art of illusion software for linux

Particle Reality is an extremely versatile Java particle engine, based on the ideas of the excellent commercial particle animation software Particle Illusion by wondertouch.

Particle Reality allows you to define all aspects of particle and particle emitter behavior over their entire lifetime in XML, allowing for a very flexible particle system.

Artwork.pl is a script to retrieve album art images from the APIC frame of ID3v2 MP3 tags. It places the album art image file in the MP3 folder with the name of your choosing.

It requires the MP3::Tag, File::Find, Image::Magick Perl modules. This project is an effective tool to create album art JPEG files for music jukebox applications such as Andromeda and Jinzora.

Warsow is a standalone first person shooter for Windows and Linux.
It offers eSport oriented FPS, fast-paced gameplay focused on trix (trick jumps) and the art of move. It offers a complete Power-up System including Weak and Strong fire mode for each weapon.
The graphics are in a cartoonish style with celshading-like_but_not_Manga style, mixing dark, flashy and dirty textures, matching the action full of fun and speed. The game got some of its inspiration from titles like Quakeworld, Quake3 CPMA, Jet Set Radio or Speedball.
Main features:
- Standalone game for Windows and Linux ;
- 3D Engine based on Qfusion (a modification of Quake 2 GPL engine) ;
- eSport oriented FPS ;
- Fast-paced gameplay focused on trix (trick jumps) and art of move ;
- Complete Power-up System including Weak and Strong fire mode for each weapon ;
- Cartoonish graphics with celshading-like_but_not_Manga style, mixing dark, flashy and dirty textures, matching with action full of fun and speed ;
- References : Quakeworld, Quake3 CPMA, Jet Set Radio, Speedball.
Enhancements:
- While the main focus of this release was to fix several bad bugs, there have also been some adjustments to maps, as well as several new features and engine enhancements.

amaroK is a soundsystem-independent audio-player for *nix. amaroKs interface uses a powerful "browser" metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make the most of your music collection. We have a fast development-cycle and super happy users. We also provide pensions and other employment benefits.
"Easily the best media-player for Linux at the moment. Install it now!"
- Linux Format Magazine
Main features:
- Quick and simple drag and drop playlist creation
- Music library (built-in sqlite or MySQL)
- Multiple backends supported (GStreamer, xine, NMM, MAS and aRts)
- 10 band equalizer
- Automatic cover art download using Amazon services
- The unique and powerful context browser
- Automatic play-statistics generation (iRate style)
- Full lyrics download
- Full Audioscrobbler support
- Visualisations with libvisual
- Streaming from any KIO source
- Crossfading
- Fully configurable OSD for track changes
- K3B (CD-burning) integration
- KDE integration

Term::Animation is a Perl module that provides a framework to produce sprite animations using ASCII art. Each ASCII sprite is given one or more frames, and placed into the animation as an animation entity.

An animation entity can have a callback routine that controls the position and frame of the entity. The module can also do collision detection between entities.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

0verkill project is a bloody action 2D deathmatch game in ASCII art.
It supports free connecting/disconnecting during the game, and runs well on modem lines. Graphics are in 16-color ASCII art with elaborate hero animations.
0verkill features 4 different weapons, grenades, invisibility, and armor. The package also contains reaperbot clients, a simple graphics editor, and a level editor.
Main features:
- four types of gun
- grenades
- armor
- counting frags and deaths
- walking, running, jumping, shooting, creeping, walking up the stairs, climbing up and down ladders
- automatic weapon switching
- damage depending on distance and hit body part
- item respawning
- invisibility
- chat
- online help
- players respawning on random places
- boundless connecting/disconnecting during the game
- choice of 15 different colors of hero, choice of male/female hero
- ASCII-art graphics in full 16 color text mode
- client-server architecture
- clients motion prediction => decent running on slower lines
- raw keyboard
- simple level editor, but not very user friendly, currently only for initiates
- graphics editor
- top players list
- full X support
- experimental reaperbots
- multi level support
- lethal objects
- two levels done at this moment
- experimental 3D support (like stereogram)
Enhancements:
- minor level changes (in old level)
- new level (its very lethal ;-) )
- lot of cool new graphics
- level negotiation (client negotiates level with server)
- fixed bug with -s option
- optional 3D view
- lethal objects
- optimized output from the avi editor
- fixed segfault in the avi editor when cannot write to a file
- improved avi editor - status bar, hold key
- fixed several bugs in avi loader
- memory leak catching mechanism (only for debugging, its turned off by default for higher speed)

CAVE WALL (Colored ASCII Visual Editor Without Any Loathsome Limitations) is an ncurses-based ASCII art editor.
CAVE WALL features image import and export in plain ASCII and ANSI formats, simple HTML export, pictures up to 1000x1000 characters large, copying and pasting selections, one-step undo, and 10 different cursor movement modes.
Operations can be performed on rectangular selections such as rotating, colorizing, filling, and horizontal and vertical mirroring with optional "intelligent" character conversion (which changes slashes into backslashes, etc.).
Enhancements:
- This release adds multiple attributes per character support, HTML export using CSS, some minor changes in the user interface, and bugfixes.